Career
His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration Юри Евгеньевич Ярвет. His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov, and he took the Estonian form in 1938. Järvet is best known in the West for the role of Doctor Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky"s Solaris, but he played in numerous other films both in Russian and his native Estonian.
Järvet played the title role in a powerful version of filmed on bleak landscapes in his native Estonia by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and released in 1970.
Kozintsev shared the screenwriting cr with Boris Pasternak. The score was by Dmitri Shostakovich.